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by thoman23 2484 days ago
God, HN can be so cynical at times. (I'm not really directing this at just you, scarface74, but the overall tone of responses here). Docker and Kubernetes are not just about padding your resume. Why would I not want to use a solution for orchestration, availability, and elasticity of my services?
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irq11 2484 days ago
Why wouldn’t you? Easy: because you probably don’t have enough “services” to make the costs of kubernetes worthwhile.

If you do, then congratulations, you’re in the top 5% of dev teams, and you presumably also have a well-funded organization of people supporting your complicated deployment.

Otherwise, it’s the common case of bored devs overcomplicating systems that can be deployed more cheaply and safely with simpler technology.

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scarface74 2484 days ago
I’m not saying you wouldn’t. I am saying that you get elasticity, orchestration, and availability by using AWS/Azure/GCP and managed services where appropriate and its a lot simpler. I’m not saying the cloud is always the right answer and if I were to do an on prem/colo, I would probably go for K8s if it were appropriate.

As far as Docker, it is the basis of both Fargate, ECS, and CodeBuild in AWS. I’m definitely not saying that it’s not useful regardless.

But why am I cynical? I consider myself a realist, no job is permanent, salary compression is real and the best way to get a raise is via RDD and job hopping.

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